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Originally Posted by cavedude
Yes, but not everybody has the ability to convert their server over. A good number of servers are completely custom or at the least altered versions of PEQ. A dual system would be needed to accommodate everybody and not force anybody to keep up or get out. We wouldn't want to make Lua an on or off type situation either, because then we'd have Lua folks on one fence, and Perl/DB folks on the other and we'd essentially be forking the project... Something we do not want to do.
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While I see no problem with adding LUA as a scripting language option, as far as integration with C++ goes I've been told that the integration is beautiful in what you can do, it is not something this far into this project to fully replace the Perl system. That is said with complete fairness in the purpose of a scripting language meant for driving events flexibly within the world by not needing to export stuff constantly in the source is a great benefit.
Though if you go beyond the flexibility of a scripting language and integrating it within the source code and start talking into more practicality and use, Perl has thousands of modules and other abilities that make it also have incredible potential that is not nearly seen here on the forums. Perl also has the capability of doing shared memory functions within one of its modules and has thousands of other modules made to bring functionality to a higher level beyond basic script parsing.
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